When Linatex (Herlev, Denmark), a Danish supplier of technical plastics and rubber for industrial applications, bought a UR5 robot arm from Universal Robots (UR; Odense, Denmark) to automate CNC machine tending in December 2008, they did something unthinkable. Instead of installing the robot behind safety caging, fenced off from people as was the norm for all industrial robots, Read More

In October, early cobot pioneer Rethink Robotics announced they were shutting down. Today, Universal Robots (UR, Odense, Denmark) announced they are hiring 20+ Rethink staff members and merging their Boston office with Rethink’s former headquarters in the Seaport area in Boston - effective immediately. Rethink personnel hired by UR bring extensive collaborative robotics Read More

Universal Robots and ARC Specialties launched the first MIG welding robot in the US for collaborative robots at FABTECH 2017. The new SnapWeld collaborative welding robot package features seamless hardware and software integration through the Universal Robots+platform. SnapWeld is a cobot-assisted, interactive welding system that can be deployed easily and flexibly in existing Read More

RAMTEC Career Center (Marion, OH) is home to the largest, most comprehensive robotics education center in the U.S. In order to increase the number of skilled manufacturing employees, the school is now training students ranging from middle school to industry professionals with collaborative robots from Universal Robots USA Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI).RAMTEC (The Robotics and Read More